Xref: utzoo comp.sys.mac.misc:10415 comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc:8098 comp.os.msdos.misc:1627 comp.windows.misc:1908 comp.windows.ms:11043 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!apple!agate!stanford.edu!leland.Stanford.EDU!jessica.stanford.edu!aaron From: aaron@jessica.stanford.edu (Aaron Wallace) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.windows.misc,comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: Announcement from Microsoft Message-ID: <1991Apr1.231547.20368@leland.Stanford.EDU> Date: 1 Apr 91 23:15:47 GMT References: <1991Apr1.061348.2511@agate.berkeley.edu> Sender: Aaron Wallace Organization: Academic Information Resources Lines: 40 In article <1991Apr1.061348.2511@agate.berkeley.edu> 128a-1ha@web-4e.berkeley.edu () writes: >In article t-billg@microsoft.UUCP (Big Guy) writes: >... >> >>Announcing, at last, a revolutionary new system that gives you even more >>consistency, compatibility, and capability than you've ever known before. >> >>Announcing... >> >> >> Microsoft Windows for the Macintosh >> >... > >What is this? The first april fools joke.. > >Nelson >128a-1ha@web.berkeley.edu Well, it is and it isn't. 1: There was a recent article in MacWeak or whatever that talked about the Microsoft Mac. It ends up that MS has had a lot of influence on the Mac software world; most recently, with regards to porting OLE to the Mac. Any owners of Excel 3 will note that the Functions and Macros ref. is the same for the future Mac version, and thus will have functions like DDE.POKE and such. The question is: since MS is the biggest Mac software maker, will its standards become Mac standards? 2: It's well-known that OS/2 3.xx (portable OS/2, a/k/a Portable Windows) is being ported to the 680xx architecture, esp. the Mac. Rumors of versions of OS/2 running on Mac IIs have been reported. Since the future of OS/2 and Windows in MS's eyes are the same, if OS/2 3.xx ever hatches for the Mac, you'll have Windows for the Mac. Of course, Apple has hinted at porting HokeyFinder to Intel machines as well, and CP/M once ran on them all... Actually, the first half of the "joke," about the Mac world being "left out," sounded authentic enough... :-) Aaron Wallace